> Yes. I was concerned about getting the backup running and finished this > morning. I did not note the error messages, but here is a section of the log > file: > > 26-Aug 00:10 bacula-sd: End of Volume "A0000004" at 224:7722 on device "VXA3" > (/dev/nst0). Write of 64512 bytes got -1. > 26-Aug 00:11 bacula-sd: Re-read of last block succeeded. > 26-Aug 00:11 bacula-sd: End of medium on Volume "A0000004" > Bytes=210,408,984,576 Blocks=3,261,547 at 26-Aug-2007 00:11. > 26-Aug 00:13 bacula-sd: 3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 4, drive 0" > command. > 26-Aug 00:14 bacula-sd: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0" > command. > 26-Aug 00:15 bacula-sd: 3305 Autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0", status is OK. > 26-Aug 00:15 bacula-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command. > 26-Aug 00:15 bacula-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 5. > This is all normal to this point. The autochanger believes that slot 5 is loaded in the tape drive. > > It repeats the 3301 and 3302 lines nine times, then shows the following: > > 26-Aug 00:15 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume "A0000005" on Storage Device > "VXA3" (/dev/nst0) for Job GIS_One.2007-08-25_17.35.00 > I have had this happen 3 to 5 times with my changer this year. > > and repeats it five times, then does 3301 and 3302 again. Next is this: > > 27-Aug 07:34 bacula-sd: GIS_One.2007-08-25_17.35.00 Error: block.c:993 Read > error on fd=6 at file:blk 0:0 on device "VXA3" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output > error. This is weird as this happens when a tape is loaded and has never been written to. Perhaps the label barcodes command never wrote a label to the media. That could explain this.
> 27-Aug 07:34 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume "A0000005" on Storage Device > "VXA3" (/dev/nst0) for Job GIS_One.2007-08-25_17.35.00 > > At 8:17 I finally got the tape loaded, as I described, and the backup > proceded. > > And that's all I know right now. I hope not. Do you have any further log where the tape was successfully loaded? > Thanks for sending this. Although I do not have a solution it will help in tracking this down. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users